I On Dec.26Th,1979,When I Was 19 Years Old,I Was Fortunate To See Lou Reed At The Legendary Bottom Line In New York City's Greenwich Village On West Forth Street, It Was Lou's Favorite Venue To Play In NYC. It Only Held 400 People, Not A Bad Seat In The House! He Put On A Great Show That Rolling Stone Profiled On It's Concert Pages. I Am 62 Now, It One Of My Favorite Memories. When Someone Like Luciano Pavarotti Wants To Sing Your Song and Sing It With You, That Says So Much. Grace and Peace Ralph In CT
The expression on Lou Reed when the master Pavarotti starts singing is priceless and moving. Thank you for sharing this time capsule moment. Two greats from different worlds. RIP Heroes.
You can laugh all you want and think WTF?? But at the end did you stay to see Lou Reed's face and his love and respect for Pavarotti? He didn't give a crap what anyone else thought. I mean, what a kick to have a world famous opera singer sing YOUR song with YOU...... !!!!
Reed's amused by Pavarotti singing a bar late (he stretched 'day' for 3 beats longer) for a bit and thus struggling to fit the words into the next phrase, but at the same time equally as impressed how he managed to get out of it without letting anybody know something was wrong.
love this version...Pavarotti sang with a lot of people...can I say this without sounding foolish-this is a masterpiece of a song!! It's like God wrote this song and gave it to Reed!
My thoughts exactly! The combo of sincerity and a Joycean focus on the beautiful minutiae of life makes a masterpiece indeed! Not to mention the juxtaposition of voices in this performance. Brought it out to the fullest!
+Dusty Rhodes two completely different contrasting performances...both in service to the lyric, to the art of music...symphonic and tremendous! the audience certainly appreciated it!
I'm Dusty Rhodes, I changed to Lady BlackStardust. That Pavarotti, he sure got around. But not as much as Lou! It must have been thrilling for each one to perform with the other.
The critics need to knock it off, this was a fundraiser, (Pavarati and Friends benefit for Angolan refugees in 2002) the artists are brilliant and daring to do this.
This is so beautiful. So strange but yet so spectacular. Just shows that not everything in music has to be perfect and 'easy' to listen to, it should be felt and enjoyed. Just look at lou's smile when pavarotti sings.
Five friends-- very different and very respectful of one another and embodying the moment: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SEitjUdgAjo.html
I’m a french girl so excuse me for my bad english. Perfect day is one of Lou Reed finest songs. I advise you to listen to Lou Reed and Renée Fleming for another version of this masterful song. Good day to all of you.
What a beautifull song ! Thanks you very much Mister Lou Reed and Mister Luciano Pavarotti. Excuse me for my bad english but I’m french girl .I love Lou Reed. Luciano Pavarotti and classic music. Thanks again,it’s really beautifull ! In french : Un grand merci à ces grands Messieurs, un grand merci post mortem.
Dont make judgements. Two great artists from two great styles of art. Pavarotti was an excepcional musician and a great human being. Lou Reed, its one of my favorite artists. Without him, theres no rock n' roll.
I’m so glad you are honest in your opinion this version kills this song IMO this is about a sad lonely person singing about a day in his life But this version sounds like a bunch of football hooligans especially the end of the song I know I’ll get a lot of criticism for this but who cares
I agree, I was expecting Pavarotti to sing on his own and the contrast between the two was not a good mix. Lou in his leather and Lucy in a tux, I wouldn’t have been surprised if Lou had cracked up after the first chorus. Ah well made me smile as well.
Que bonita canción! De una placidez increible! En la voz de dos grandes, cada cual en su género, hacen una versión única. R.I.P. Lou Reed. R.I.P. Luciano Pavarotti.
Merci Monsieur Lou Reed et Monsieur Luciano Pavarotti. Votre duo est magistral. Le mélange de l'underground et du classique est fort bien réussi. Un grand Merci post mortem.
He's amused by Pavarotti singing a bar late (he stretched 'day' for 3 beats longer) for a bit and thus struggling to fit the words into the next phrase, but at the same time equally as impressed how he managed to get out of it without letting anybody know something was wrong.
the song is not about heroin to everybody... Only people that don't know about Lou and Andy and the underground would say something like that. just because this song was in a movie about heroin doesn't mean its only about heroin and everyone that hears it automatically thinks about heroin.
***** Lou was a natural born junkie. And if you only knew about opiate addiction, you would understand what this song is really about. Еspecially line "you just keep me hang it on". But you live the life of a respectable citizen and have no idea about what you try to argue. So, after all, what are you?
I mean it was for charity. Ricky Martin also sang at one of these fucking things. James Brown and Sting were there singing during the same charity event as Lou. I mean, fuckin hell, Pavorotti sang with the Spice Girls for charity. It wasn't supposed to be art so much as getting a wide variety of people together to raise money for people suffering from war and poverty. He did this charity event every year from the early 90s until his farewell tour and retirement. Context is king. Take it for what it is.
I love this version of a favorite song. My late brother used to set up the shows in Atlanta and swore that he and the crew loved Pavarotti who was the kindest to the crews and always took them for a steak dinner. I'm a huge Lou Reed fan so it's best of all world for me.
Lou took it to church on this rendition. One of the best live versions I have heard from him. He seemed inspired. Also cool to see that even the Pav could misread sheet music.
He looked humiliated AND amused, as his song got crucified by Pav/grotti!!!! NOT being a hater but masonic garped upto the hilts, ritual humiliations much for Lou!!!!!! Nutty performance and he knew it... poor bloke :((( RIP.
Who didn't know this was going to be a love it or hate it thing. I'm generally glad I found it, though while I'd pass it along to some music friends, it won't be something found on my disc tray.
watched this video 7 years ago and thought their performance don't really fit each other. Today a second watch is actually not bad. It is a beautiful song after all and both of them are real musicians.
+Ricky Rhoades For all the silly, insulting, brain dead, mean handed comments I read on youtube, yours says exactly what I was thinking. This is when youtube shines: when a glorious moment such as this can be preserved for you and I AND for generations to come. When later this year I purchase one of those 65" TVs this will be one of the first videos I watch. Peace.
In terms of singing tecnique, it seems like Pavarotti is an elephant and Lou an ant. One was a classical trained singer, one of the best opera singers ever. The other was not even a singer, he was a talker, like Dylan, for example. He didnt how to sing. Of course i know Lou Reed was completely incapable of singing Nessum Dorma, but i know one thing too: Pavarotti would be incapable of singing Heroin or Venus in Furs and make it sound great the way Lou did. There are some stuff, especially from The Velvet Underground, that only sounds good when Lou is on it talking, mumbling and being so fucking unmusical, but sounding perfect anyway. What is a good singer? That is the question.
+Teresa Gomes ...LOU REED,NOT EVEN A SINGER..???...ARE YOU NUTS?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...YOU DONT EVEN KNOW HOW MANY ARTISTS BEEN INFLUENCED BY HIM....
+Teresa Gomes It's not a contest. And Pavorati could never sing this song if Lou had never written it. I think I good singer is one whose voice expresses their soul.
